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A Case of Rare Small Bowel Tumor in a Child and Review of Literature

Authors: J. Deepak, K. L. Aravind, Gowrishankar, S. Ramesh

Published in: Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology | Issue 3/2015

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Small bowel tumors are amongst the rarest types of childhood malignancies, and accounts for only 2 % of all gastrointestinal (GI) cancers across all age groups. An overwhelming 98 % of malignant neoplasms of small bowel are comprised of adenocarcinomas, carcinoid tumors, lymphomas or sarcoma/gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs). The less common benign small bowel tumors include hyperplastic polyps, adenomas, GISTs, lipomas, hemangiomas and those associated with Peutz Jeghers syndrome. We encountered a child with rare variant of small intestinal tumor involving the jejunum. We present this case along with a review of the literature. …

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Title: A Case of Rare Small Bowel Tumor in a Child and Review of Literature
Authors: J. Deepak
K. L. Aravind
Gowrishankar
S. Ramesh
Publication date: 01-09-2015
Publisher: Springer India
Published in: Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology / Issue 3/2015
Print ISSN: 0975-7651
Electronic ISSN: 0976-6952
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13193-015-0417-9

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